The Opera de Lyon will host a new production Franz Schreker’s Die Gezeichneten [The Stigmatized] under the direction of David Bösch on 13 March. Further performances take place on 17, 20, 22, 26 and 28 March.

Michael Haas, author of Forbidden Music: The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis, has published a virtual exhibition on Franz Schreker on his website – a highly recommended guide to the most important ‘missing link’ in the history of 20th century music.

Conductor Ingo Metzmacher on Schreker:

Schreker was undoubtedly one of the last composers of this generation. A new aesthetic developed after the war. His personal fate as a “degenerate” artist in Berlin, who was driven out of office in 1933, attempted to emigrate and then died in 1934, is an additional factor. Like many others, he was simply forgotten – passed over. The Nazis did a good job on him.

Andrew Clements of the The Guardian reviews the new Challenge Classics recording of Franz Schreker’sDer Schatzgräber [The Treasure Hunter], recorded by Marc Albrecht, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and the Netherlands Opera Chorus at the Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam in autumn 2012.

At Sotheby’s “Music,
Continental Books & Manuscripts” sale several items from the estate of Franz Schreker will be on
sale. Among them: Schreker’s own annotated and marked-up scores of Der Ferne Klang and Der Schatzgräber, a full score of Schönberg’s Gurrelieder (also
annotated by Schreker) and a first edition of Wozzeck, signed and inscribed by Berg to Schreker.

Here are some visual
impressions from the performance of the reduced version of Franz Schreker’sDer
Schatzgräber [The Treasure Hunter] on 17 September at the Tabakfabrik in Linz.

Reviews of the
long-lost opera were consistently positive, especially regarding the Israel
Chamber Orchestra and Alexander Kaimbacher’s performance of the fool. In a previous post, we have already written about Der Standard’s plea to “play
more Schreker in Vienna”.